Directed by Mark McQuown and Musically Directed by Cathy Tibbitts, this  musical features guest artist Daebreon Poiema, who is currently starring in Sister Act the Musical at the Candlelight Pavilion in Claremont.

First Lady Suite will give audiences an inside peek, in four separate segments,  into the lives of four of the First Ladies of the United States of America and the people surrounding them. They are: Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Eisenhower, Bess Truman, and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.

Director’s Note – From Mark McQuown

These vignettes are connected to each other only through the string of the desire of these women to have been somewhere else, during the elections, the campaigns, the lonely night and the infidelities.  In the end, these great ladies just wanted to fly away from the responsibilities of being First Lady – they wanted to be free, like birds on a wind that would eventually take them home, home away from the White House and politics. Of all the characters in the four vignettes, Mary Barelli Gallagher is the only one left alive and she is over 90 years young.

First Lady Suite